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Are you a Contract Power Electronics Engineer looking for an interesting new contract?
Do you want to work well-established organization in Southampton who are electrifying machinery using the latest high-tech applications?
My client is designing electronics using advanced technologies such as SiC and GaN to combine compressors and turbines to deliver reliable and a more sustainable methods to run combustion engines.
They are now looking to grow their team in Southampton by adding a Contract Power Electronics Engineer. You will be working on an exciting new project that they have just won, focussing on their ultra high-speed electric motor drives.
Experience needed as a Contract Power Electronics Design Engineer:
- Design of electrified vehicle or industrial power electronics, such as drives, grid tied power generation including transistor selection, gate drive design, power supply design, measurements circuits, operating and protection strategies.
- Able to prepare appropriate test bench and test
- Can develop concept, proving key technologies and demonstrating the system functionality.
- To design and test adequate thermal management solutions for power electronics systems.
- Ensure designs can comply with relevant EMC/EMI standards and modifying the design where needed to ensure this is the case.
Knowledge and qualifications needed as a Contract Power Electronics Engineer:
- Degree in degree in Electronic Engineering or other relevant discipline with a demonstrable level of industrial experience.
- It’ll be a bonus if you have knowledge of power electronic devices, including silicon based IGBTs and MOSFETs through to emerging SiC / GaN based technologies: gate driver, control architecture and measurement circuits, selection/characterisation of devices for inverter, DC/DC converters and battery charger applications
If you are interested in this Contract Power Electronics Engineer job based in Southampton please send your CV to Ruksana Begum rbegum@octagongroup.co.uk